Ice-making freezer cleaning
AssigneeScotsman Industries
InventorsWilliam A. Litchy, Keith H. Roth, Michael J. Andresen
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Abstract
An ice-making freezer having a freezer assembly; a fluid reservoir coupled to the freezer assembly by a hose and configured to contain a fluid; and a mounting assembly configured to adjust the fluid reservoir to be in a first position during an ice-making mode and in a second position during a cleaning mode, wherein when the fluid reservoir is in the second position the fluid submerges at least a portion of the freezer assembly.
Claims17
An ice-making freezer, comprising:
- a freezer assembly;
- a fluid reservoir coupled to the freezer assembly by a hose and configured to contain a fluid;
- and
- a mounting assembly configured to adjust the fluid reservoir to be in a first position during an ice-making mode and in a second position during a cleaning mode,
- wherein when the fluid reservoir is in the second position the fluid submerges at least a portion of the freezer assembly.
An ice-making freezer, comprising:
- a freezer assembly;
- a fluid reservoir coupled to the freezer assembly by a hose and configured to contain a fluid;
- and
- a mounting assembly means for adjusting the fluid reservoir to be in a first position during an ice-making mode and in a second position during a cleaning mode,
- wherein when the fluid reservoir is in the second position the fluid submerges at least a portion of the freezer assembly.
A method of cleaning an ice-making freezer having a fluid reservoir for containing a fluid and coupled to a freezer assembly by a hose, comprising:
- adjusting, by a mounting assembly, the fluid reservoir from an ice-making position to a cleaning position;
- and
- filling the fluid reservoir with a cleaning solution,
- wherein when the fluid reservoir is in the ice-making position the cleaning solution submerges at least a portion of the freezer assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.